Category Archives: Evraz ZSMK

The forth exhaust system has been put into operation at the Evraz ZSMK sintering factory. With its commissioning the plant completes gas-purifying system reconstruction. The combined capacity of 4 machines is 900 thousand cubic meters per hour. The rate of purification is over 99%. Since 2015 thanks to the machines air pollution has decreased by…

The rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has commissioned the second line of rail processing. The project allows increasing 100-meter R65 rails output 2-fold as well as producing European 60E1 and 54E1 rails with the length of 30, 36, 60, 72 and 90 meters. Investments in the project totaled 168 million rubles. In particular, the manufacture…

The Siberian department of the Federal service on ecological, technological and nuclear control (Rostechnadzor) has carried out a scheduled check of the industrial safety at 13 dangerous sites of Evraz ZSMK. During the inspection 305 violations of the industrial safety norms have been found. In particular, repairs of the main construction structures were not carried…

Evraz ZSMK has put into operation a machine to thicken slums from blast furnace gas-purifying equipment. With the new machinery the intake of water from the Tom River and the wastewater discharge will decrease by 3 million cubic meters. “In the past 6 years, the discharge of waste water has dropped by 15 million cubic…

In May Zapadno-Sibirsky Iron and Steel Works decreased railroad deliveries of rolled metal to its customers by 6.3% MoM, but increased them by 5.6% YoY. In 5 months sales dropped by 0.7% YoY, to 2.75 million tons. Sales to domestic customers grew by 3.7%, to 792.4 thousand tons, while exports – by 0.6%, to 1.96…

Evraz ZSMK has signed an agreement with Air Liquide to construct a new oxygen complex to supply air separation products for the technological needs of the company. The project will provide the works with the state-of-the-art machinery, 30% more energy efficient than the old one. In three years 2 blocks of air separation with the…

Evraz ZSMK has for the first time sold a batch of 54 E1 rails weighing 1650 tons to Greece. The rails will be used to expand the Athens subway. “The strategic goal of Evraz is to become a serious player on the European market of railroad transportation. We are counting on the further development of…

Evraz ZSMK has started assembling a new ladle crane in its converter shop No. 2. The machinery has been produced by Uralmashzavod. The representatives of the customer were present at the machine-building works during the control assembly and testing. The machinery works faultless. The main units of the crane have been shipped to Evraz ZSMK.…

Evraz ZSMK has obtained the TSI certificate for the 54E4 and 49E5 European standard sections. The certificate allows the company to supply such rails to Europe to be used on high-speed and ordinary railroads. The company has also confirmed the TSI certificate correspondence for the 60E1 and 60E2 European sections. “The manufacture of 54E4 and…

In October Evraz ZSMK delivered 566 thousand tons of products via railroad to local customers and abroad, up by 6.8% MoM and by 5.2% YoY. In September the results were up by 23% and by 7% respectively, while in August – up by 6.5%, but down by 7.5%. In October Evraz ZSMK supplied 170.3 thousand…

Evraz ZSMK specialists have developed the technique to produce new kinds of rails. Preliminary tests have been successfully carried out at the works. The new DT400IK rails are the improved version of DT370IK for complex sites of railroad, with wear resistance 13% higher than ordinary rails. Another new product is DT350VS400 rails for the high-speed…

Evraz ZSMK has started producing B500V rebars with the diameter of 12-40 mm for the markets of Poland and the Netherlands. During the test the rebars have been checked by Zetom (Poland) and KIWA (the Netherlands) specialists. Rebars have successfully passed the tests and confirmed their correspondence to PN EN 10080 Stal do zbrojenia betonu…

Over 800 tons of Evraz rails have been shipped to the city of Nizhniy Novgorod to construct the railroad to the new subway station of Strelka. For this order Evraz ZSMK produced R50 rails with the length of 25 meters. Evraz rails have been used in most of Russian and CIS subways. They have been…

Evraz ZSMK has put into operation a new 320-ton converter in its steelmaking shop. The old machine was shut down on April 10. Replacement works have been finished in less than 3 months. Investments exceeded 1 billion rubles. The converter has been designed and produced by Yuzhno-Uralsk Machine-Building Works. The new gas-purifying units will decrease…